JOB DESCRIPTION

Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India (SAATHII), India

Position Title:  Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Program Coordinators and Counseling Mentor                                                    

Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Date of Issue: 5 October 2009                                    Closing Date: 20^th October 2009

About SAATHII and ICTC Public Private Partnership (PPP) Program 

Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India (SAATHII), a registered non-profit organization, was founded with a vision to stabilize and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in India and ensure that people living with HIV/AIDS receive un-stigmatized, affordable and quality care, support and treatment. Headquartered in Chennai, it has branch offices at Kolkata and Hyderabad, and field offices at Karur in TamilNadu, Bhubaneswar in Orissa, Imphal in Manipur and Jaipur in Rajasthan.

The PPP is a tripartite agreement for delivery of Integrated Counseling and Testing Services.  SAATHII is the implementation partner for NACO and APSACS and supports the scaling up of PMTCT services in 68 private sector hospitals in 14 districts of Andhra Pradesh through conducting workshops, facility assessments, and mentorship programming.   The goal of the PPP is to ensure that comprehensive PMTCT services are made available to pregnant women seeking ante-natal care in private sector health care facilities in fourteen districts in Andhra Pradesh.

Vacancies at SAATHII-Hyderabad

1. Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – 1vacancy (Job Code: HYD-MEO-1009)
The Monitoring and Evaluation officer is responsible for the day to day data management and reporting related to Public Private Partnership- ICTC program. The M&E officer will work under the guidance of Senior M&E officer towards gathering of data from the partners, data clarifications and cleaning, data analyses, preparation of technical reports and M&E tools, providing feedback to the partners (Private Hospitals), submitting timely reports to the donor and Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society (APSACS)

Responsibilities
• Data collection from the private hospitals on monthly basis (government reporting formats) and quarterly (EGPAF reporting format)
• Data cleaning
• Data clarification from the partners
• Data analyses under the guidance of senior monitoring and evaluation officer
• Preparation of technical reports under the guidance of senior monitoring and evaluation officer
• Maintenance of centralized database
• Training of the partners and partner sites on M&E systems
• Assistance towards implementation of uniform M&E systems
• Research assistance

Qualification, Skills and Experience
• Advance degree in Public health, statistics and other social sciences
• Minimum of two to three years experience in monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS programs or other similar health programs
• Experience in data analyses an use of statistical software
• Experience in managing large data
• Ability to work with large network of health care providers from the government, private and non-governmental sectors.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Willing to travel to six high prevalence states.
• Ability to work in a team with minimum supervision
• Excellent interpersonal skills

2. Program Coordinators – 2 vacancies (Job Code: DIS-PC-1009)
The key responsibilities of the position is to help private hospitals to plan and implement PPTCT program in 3 districts per project coordinator and provide on-site mentorship to counselors and lab technicians of these hospitals.

Responsibilities:
• Assist Area Managers in selection of the sites
• Conduct sensitization workshops/meetings
• Provide start up assistance sites in establishing PPTCT program
• Organize trainings for the site level staff
• Provide on-site mentoring to the PPTCT staff
• Undertake district-wise mapping of other HIV/AIDS service providers, initiate linkages/referral systems and oversee the functioning of referral system
• Conduct monthly monitoring of the sites
• Develop monthly and quarterly quantitative and qualitative reports
• Participate in district level review meetings

Qualification and skills:
• Post graduate in Social work / Social Sciences having at least 2 -3 years of experience in HIV/AIDS and  PPTCT program implementation
• Strong counseling and mentorship skills
• Excellent written and oral communications skills in English and Telugu.
• Willingness to travel extensively
• Strong interpersonal skillss
• Proficient in the use of computers
• Strong analytical and documentation skills

3. Counseling Mentor – 1 vacancy (Job Code: HYD-CM-1009):

The key responsibility of this position is to provide guidance and technical updates to the Project Coordinators and site staff in providing quality counseling to the ante-natal women.

Responsibilities:

§         Provide technical knowledge and skills of counseling to Project Coordinators and staff from participating hospitals through site visits/Supportive Monitoring Visits.

§         Ensure follow up of positive women identified by respective hospitals through networking with District Level Positive Networks and PPTCT NGOs

§         Establish Peer Support Groups, where feasible

§         Organize awareness programs/activities

§         Establish linkages with Community Care Centers, ART Centers, District Level Positive Networks, PPTCT NGOs and other HIV/AIDS service providers for provision of continuum of care services to positive women identified by participating hospitals

§         Ensure proper maintenance of data at all the participating hospitals

§         Organize trainings, experience sharing and review meetings for medical officers, project coordinators and counselors

§         Hotline consultation on queries from counselors and laboratory technicians.

§         Documentation and reporting of the supportive monitoring visits

Qualification and skills:

§         Post graduate in Social work / Social Sciences having at least 4 years of experience in HIV/AIDS and PPTCT program implementation

§         Strong counseling and mentorship skills

§         Excellent written and oral communications skills in English and Telugu

§         Willingness to travel extensively

§         Strong interpersonal skills

§         Proficient in the use of computers

§         Strong analytical and documentation skills

Interested candidates please send a covering letter detailing your eligibility for the specific position, an updated bio-data and three references to Saathii.jobs@... before 20^th October, 2009. Please specify the job code in your e-mail subject and cover letter.